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Saturday, July 21, 2012

New report: America's Digital Future: Advancing a shared strategy for digital public libraries,

Last November a group of public library leaders met to begin to address the future of public libraries as information is increasingly digital. There was much discussion about the Digital Public Library of America and the role of public libraries in that endeavor - as well as the possible impact of DPLA on public library usage and funding. It was agreed that this was not a time to sit back and see what happens. If public libraries don't serve the content the users want in the forms they want to consume it, their future is grim. A new report, America's Digital Future: Advancing a shared strategy for digital public libraries, summarizes the themes from the meeting and lays out an action plan for moving forward